Wednesday, May 6, 2015

Who Expected This Artist Here?

Two stories among the Dick Giordano/Vince Colletta ones at
early-Sixties Timely-Atlas-Marvel have probably passed as Giordano's
pencil work because like his they whisper "Charlton" to the reader's
subconscious. For comparison with "No Dates for the Dance," the bottom
tier with a typical pose is
from the latter company's The
Young Doctors 1 (Jan/63), inked
by Vince Alascia.

Charles Nicholas otherwise last worked for Timely in the Forties.
I don't know if you'd actually call this ghosting for
Colletta,
considering Dick Giordano got to sign some of his stories in the run.
But I doubt editor Stan Lee directly poached Nicholas here. As
Mark Evanier has pointed out (concerning Joe Orlando's bringing in
Jerry Grandenetti's work), editors were probably just as happy to trust
some artists like Orlando and Colletta to do all the work of
subcontracting the pencils.